One group of educators in the St. Louis-area called Educators for Social Justice supports socially just curriculum and encourages students to become involved in social change.

McAvoy said in the article that schools have the important role to prepare students to live in a democratic society.

“Where do you see people talking across their differences? You don’t see that in the American public,” McAvoy told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Schools are a really great place where we might actually be able to teach young people that there’s a value in hearing other people disagree with you."